Tag: Airports

  • Manchester Airport Deploys Hologram Staff to Reinforce Liquid Rules

    Manchester Airport Deploys Hologram Staff  to Reinforce Liquid Rules

    When I bumped into the human sized projection box from Holocube some days back, I thought folks would probably this to given an illusion of suspended human figure in a room and creep out their guests. But the authorities at Manchester Airport came up with a much more constructive use of this Hologram technology. They…

  • Underwear designed to shield your privates during airport scans

    Underwear designed to shield your privates during airport scans

    Every time I look at Adam and Eve plays and movies I notice the wonders of a single beetle leaf. Sometimes it’s Maple too, but at the end of the day we are denied the sightings of the first genitals on earth. Good for them. So do we feel naked at a place no sacred…

  • Delta Air spruces up JFK and LGA to make room for iPad loaded restaurants

    Delta Air spruces up JFK and LGA to make room for iPad loaded restaurants

    Delta Air is also set to embrace the power of the iPad in a really big way. OTG is the company that’s responsible for the rather overpriced menu selections at JFK International Airport and will soon debut at LGA as well. As of November 19th, toady, they’re going to be using at least 200 iPads…

  • Airport Scanners Emit Dangerous Levels of Radiation

    Airport Scanners Emit Dangerous Levels of Radiation

    Airport scanners are meant to ensure your and other passengers’ safety, but recent reports are indicating that the levels of radiation emitted by the machines could actually be dangerous to your health. Dr David Brenner, Head of the Centre for Radiological Research at Columbia University, New York has said that radiation levels are up to…

  • Free Wi-fi at 47 US airports during holidays by Google

    Free Wi-fi at 47 US airports during holidays by Google

    About 47 airports will soon enjoy free Wi-fi on holidays, thanks to Google. All of these include the major hotspots in US. In a joint effort with Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and other providers, Google plans to bring down the Wi-fi price at airports to a bare nothing! Some of the…

  • Heathrow airport gets futuristic driverless taxi

    Heathrow airport gets futuristic driverless taxi

    Some may call them very creepy, maybe because they see too many movies but I think this is the best and I say screw the cab drivers at the airport because they truly suck and these cab pods are just amazing! They are fast, accident free, no traffic jams and use much thinner roads and…

  • The worlds hottest billboard

    Belgium’s first green power supplier Electrabel has installed the ‘worlds hottest billboard’ at Brussels airport. Thermal imaging cameras film passing travellers and their energy is directly shown on 42 lcd screens. [Notcot]

  • Toyota i-Real personal mobility car to patrol Japans airports

    Toyota i-Real personal mobility car to patrol Japans airports

    Starting next week Japan’s Chubu international airport will have officers patrolling in a shiny new Toyota i-Real personal mobility car. Made from lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic it has controls on the arm rests in lieu of a steering wheel. The three wheeled vehicle shortens its wheelbase in low speed mode to maneuver among pedestrians…

  • Dubai unveils worlds largest airport terminal building built at a cost of $4.5 billion

    Dubai unveils worlds largest airport terminal building built at a cost of $4.5 billion

    Grand Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport has opened on October 14. The oil rich country has set another record with the massive Terminal 3 building with is the largest in the world and built at a cost of $4.5 billion. Catering to passengers for Gulf countries and the US, movement around the airport’s six…

  • Emirates A380 gateway model finds space on Heathrow Airport

    Emirates A380 gateway model finds space on Heathrow Airport

    Did you know that the Antonov An-124 Ruslan was the largest airplane ever mass-produced until production of the Airbus A380 started? During development it was known as the An-400 and An-40 in the West, and it flew for the first time in 1982. Ironically, it’s an Antonov An-124 freighter operated by Russia’s Polet that transported…